There are over 1100 pictures which Dr. Robert
Shaw took while he was a teacher at David Henry Hickman High
School of Columbia, Missouri, before he became the Superintendant of
Schools.

Those pictures have been scanned from the originals, which were 35mm
slides, and can be viewed from this webpage.
As a matter of fact I need your help identifying them since I wasn't at
Hickman until after these pictures were taken.

The pictures are in seven groups and many are probably incorrectly categorized at
this point which is why I need your help.
I categorized them the best I could from the condition they were in when
I received them. I would appreciate you help
if you can identify any of the people in any of the pictures or have
information about when any of the pictures were
taken or at what specific event the picture was taken. (Several
Kewpies entered the data on the spreadsheets and I think some of them
got labeled by the wrong picture. Perhaps they just got out of sync with
the numbers. That is why I ask for your help! Please do whatever you can
to help identify and help me group the pictures in some kind of a time
frame if you don't mind!)

Once these
pictures are identified and can be assembled in a chronological format I
plan to convert them to slide shows so classmates who attended Hickman High School during this time frame can each
have a copy if they desire. I am in hopes that people will desire to
make a contribution to the "kewpie.net Scholarship" in appreciation of
this project, particularly those who were in these pictures and
naturally
will enjoy them the most.

Details of the "Dr. Robert Shaw slide
collection" In Memory of Dorcas Jeans, Class of
1958 (When I first announced the completion
of these slides having been scanned Dorcas was my most interested
supporter and she exerted many hours to making most of the
identifications that are on the "Identification Chart" as of now,
September 2009) Thank You, Dorcas, Thank You, Thank You Very Much!

The slides that were referred
to as the Dr. Robert Shaw slides were turned over to me by Jan Mees when
she retired from Hickman High School in 2006 as the Media Coordinator.
Her students were going to scan (digitize the slides) but only got
started and then the project ended. The best I could tell from the
condition of the slides when I received them:

1)It appeared that the students had scanned
166 slides named Group 7 on this CD and labeled (Previous Scans)

2)The folder named (1956 - 1960 Misc) were
slides which had been separated from the rest.

3)The rest of the slides, the best I could
tell, where still in groups sorted by years so I named those folders,
1956, 1957, 1958, 1959 and 1960.

There were over 1100
slides. I scanned them, sixteen slides per scan, on an HP Scanjet G4050
and then each slide was individually cropped to get rid of the rounded
corners and black or white bars; above, below and/or on the sides…..
None of the slides were altered; only the bad edges were cropped….

I was really shocked at how
good the slides turned out. This was the first time for me at scanning
slides; I didn’t even have a scanner that did slides. But since I was
going to start a project with my own personal slides I bought a slide
scanner and now these slides are scanned but I still have a few thousand
more of my own to do.

Some of the slides had names,
etc. written on the borders but to scan 1184 slides it really didn’t
seem like a one person job to try to make notes at the time of each
scan. Maybe that was a mistake, but since no one else had offered to do
this project in the last 10 years or so, I elected myself to do it.

Now I am asking for your help
to complete the project.

There is an Excel spreadsheet
already laid out and numbered to match the corresponding slides as you
peruse them. Even though they are grouped by years… 1956 through 1960,
it doesn’t necessarily mean that it is correct so there is a column for
Class and Date. Should you have other comments to make about slides you
recognize, just include the number of the slide and email me any
information you have. Please only identify slides which you are
certain about. Information such as; I think slide 006 was taken in 1954
and I believe that is Joe on the far left will not help!